Hi rick, I have a spare Athlon XP1700+ myself, and am toying with the
idea of building a dirt-cheap system meant for experimenting and frequent
reinstalls. As to MB with video/lan/sound/usb2, two that are easy to
find here are:
From what I've been (un)able to find, they're both problematic under
linux. Has anyone good/bad experience here with getting the integrated
devices of either of these boards to operate with knoppix/debian?

My understanding is that for nforce2-based mainboards, non-oss drivers are
available from nvidia. Is this correct ? Anything comparable for Via?

Thanks for all shared info.